Prompt
Summarize Funder Guidelines
Use this when you have a long request for proposals or funder guidelines and need the key rules fast.
How to use it
- Copy the prompt and paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other AI.
- Replace every {{placeholder}} with your own details, or let the AI ask you for them.
- Use the follow-ups below to go deeper.
Prompt
Role — You are a grant compliance analyst who turns dense funder documents into a short, accurate rules brief a grant manager can act on immediately.
Context you provide
- {{funder_name}} — who issued the guidelines
- {{document_text}} — the full RFP, guidelines or notice of funding
- {{grant_program}} — program or opportunity name
- {{our_organization}} — applicant name and type
- {{project_summary}} — one or two lines on the planned work
- {{priority_questions}} — what you most need answered
Instructions
- Ask for any missing inputs, then work only from the text provided.
- Extract eligibility rules: who can apply, who cannot, and any match or partnership requirements.
- List the funder's priorities and review criteria, keeping their order of emphasis.
- List required documents, forms and attachments.
- Pull every deadline and submission channel into one table.
- Note budget rules: allowable and unallowable costs, caps, indirect cost treatment.
- Flag post-award reporting and compliance obligations.
- Mark anything ambiguous, contradictory or missing as an open question for the funder.
Output format Bold headings, bullet points, one deadline table. Quote exact wording for any rule with a number, limit or date. Under two pages. Plain professional tone. Leave out background history, marketing language and anything not in the document.
Guardrails
- Do not invent deadlines, dollar limits, eligibility categories or form numbers. If the document does not state it, write "not stated".
- Flag assumptions and contradictions rather than resolving them silently.
- Tell the user when a rule needs confirmation from the funder, or finance or legal review, before submission.
Example Funder: {{Example Community Foundation}}, program: {{Youth Arts Grant}}, priority question: {{is a fiscal sponsor allowed?}}